Blog “The Prince”
The article relates to the recent leaks of the information from the wikileaks website. It had information about all the government activities, its foreign relations with other countries. After the incident, U.S. has been trying hard not to let any of the other countries find that information that was out in the Internet. U.S. always maintained power over other countries in any kind of relations. One of the examples is the invasion of Iraq by the Bush Administration. Even though there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, the U.S. still seems to have power over their government and the country. And now since the secret government information is out in public, U.S. is still trying to maintain the power. U.S. has put into lot of efforts into stopping Syria, Iran and North Korea to stop selling arms and weapons. They even insisted other countries not letting any airlines pass through their territory so that no arms and weapons could be transported.
“It is the arms transactions involving Syria and Hezbollah, however, that appear to be among the Obama administration’s gravest concerns. President Obama came into office pledging to engage with Syria, arguing that the Bush administration’s efforts to isolate Syria had done nothing to wean it from Iran or encourage Middle East peace efforts.”
The article is very much the example of Machiavellian principles. U.S. maintains power over the other countries regardless of the fact that their secret information about its relations has been leaked out. The information might have contained U.S. selling weapons and arms to other countries but they still put pressure on other countries. This takes U.S. out of the picture because they deceived other countries into not producing any weapons and arms and selling them.
